Re: [css3-syntax] Escaping U, R or L in url() tokens

On 06/01/2013 00:51, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 16:24, Simon Sapin wrote:
>>
>> In both CSS 2.1 and the css3-syntax ED, url( is ASCII case-insensitive
>> but can not be escaped. This looks deliberate to be, but I’m told that
>> it could be an oversight.

This is a known issue, filed as 
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17514 (with a bit of 
history of the problem thrown in).

> It looks like only WebKit and Firefox honor unicode-range at all.
> Both of them treat an escaped U in the token as an error.  So, I'm
> leaving that as it is, only accepting a literal u or U.
>
> I've made the changes to the url token, though.

Does this mean we're officially allowing escaping?  If so, we should 
also update CSS21.  I can propose an edit and throw it over to Bert for 
inclusion in the errata document.

Cheers,
Anton

Received on Monday, 7 January 2013 14:05:46 UTC